Chapter 55 The Shen Family's Scheme (Part Two)
Looking at his daughter, Shen's father thought to himself that she was not his biological daughter after all, and he could not raise her to be truly worthy of him.
He then said, "You only have this one option now, otherwise you'll have to come and live on the farm with us."
When Ms. Shen saw her father looking her up and down, her hands, hidden in her sleeves, trembled uncontrollably.
Mr. Shen's father's cold voice reached Ms. Shen's ears: "You may not know, but with your looks, in that kind of place, you'll regret not marrying Director Xing."
Upon hearing her husband's words, Shen's mother could no longer control herself, trembling as she clutched her head and burst into tears.
Looking at the indifferent father and the helpless mother who only knew how to cry, Teacher Shen realized that she had never truly understood her family.
Teacher Shen controlled her voice to make it sound less trembling: "Dad, Director Xing wants a wife. All we need to do is give him a young and beautiful one, isn't that enough?"
Mr. Shen looked puzzled and gestured for Teacher Shen to continue.
Her voice trembled as she looked at Shen's father and said, "That Gu Yihan is younger and prettier than me. Isn't it a miracle that she married Director Xing?"
Father Shen was taken aback, then sneered, "That was the one you picked out for your brother back then."
However, Mother Shen's eyes lit up, and she immediately ran to Father Shen and grabbed him, saying, "Zixin doesn't like her. You protected her for so long in the machine factory and helped her gain a foothold there."
Mother Shen said excitedly, almost incoherently, "Since she has received our protection, she should repay us."
Mr. Shen gently pushed Mrs. Shen's hand away and looked at her sideways: "What makes you think you can make Gu Yihan listen to you and marry Director Xing?"
Shen's mother looked at Shen's father and screamed, "Why not? If she doesn't agree, I'll tell everyone that she's an orphan with a house and a job."
"If it weren't for our protection, would she, an orphan, be able to live so peacefully? There are so many thugs and hooligans waiting to take advantage of her!"
Seeing that Mr. Shen was still hesitant, Teacher Shen said resolutely, "Dad, she is just an outsider. It's already quite good that she has this much value."
"I am your biological daughter. Do you think my future value is less than Gu Yihan's?"
Thinking that this daughter could still be sold for a higher price in the future, the father said, "It's up to you."
Both Teacher Shen and Shen's mother looked pleasantly surprised, knowing that Shen's father had agreed.
Mother Shen said to Father Shen, still worried, "Old Shen, when you get to the factory tomorrow morning, tell them that our son has made a deal with my friend's niece."
Teacher Shen stared intently at her father and said, "Dad, let the people at the factory know that Gu Yihan is a single, wealthy orphan with her own house."
"That way, when she's all alone, we can introduce Director Xing to her, making her even more grateful to us and able to speak well of her in front of Director Xing."
Father Shen nodded thoughtfully.
Gu Yihan was unaware that someone was plotting against her.
She was lying on a deckchair with her legs crossed, watching Momo perform acrobatics in the yard, biting her own tail.
He listened intently to the melons growing in his neighbor's yard.
In the Lin family's courtyard
Lin's mother shouted in a shrill voice, "Lin Fang, you only have a few months left before graduation, you must go to the countryside."
Lin Xiaofen leaned against the living room door frame and laughed, "Lin Fang, Lin Fang, I kindly found you a job at a bathhouse doing pedicures, but you wouldn't go."
"Even if I wanted to go now, they wouldn't want me anymore."
Lin Fang stared at Lin Xiaofen with bloodshot eyes and said, "What good intentions could you possibly have? You want me to go to the men's bathhouse to give a bunch of grown men a foot massage."
"Do you think everyone is like you, climbing up the social ladder for so many years, and who has actually married you? They just use you for free."
Lin's mother looked at her second daughter with disgust and slapped her across the face.
Lin Fang covered her slapped face and cried out to her mother, "Mom, we're both daughters, why are you so biased?"
“I washed all the family’s clothes and did all the housework since I was little. If I couldn’t reach the pot to cook, I would stand on a stool. Haven’t I done enough?”
Lin's mother looked at Lin Fang with cold indifference: "You are my daughter, shouldn't you be doing these things? Who hasn't done these things since childhood?"
"At least you still live in the city. I'm already grateful that I was able to send you to school. Go back to your hometown and see your cousins. Aren't they all working before dawn?"
She shoved Lin Fang, who was standing in front of her, aside and said, "We didn't even have enough to eat at home, yet we didn't give you away. You're such an ingrate, so ungrateful."
Hearing her mother's accusations, Lin Fang cried out, "You might as well have given me away! Who told you to give birth to me? Did you even ask for my consent?"
As soon as Lin's father got home from get off work, he heard Lin Fang's last words. Without saying a word, he unbuckled his belt and lashed it at Lin Fang's leg.
"Ah... Dad, please stop hitting me, I was wrong." A shrill scream.
While smoking, Lin's father roared, "I raised you, and now you're blaming your parents?"
Lin Fang screamed and tried to dodge, but her father's belt seemed to have eyes, and no matter how she dodged, she would be whipped.
"Ah... Dad, I was wrong, I won't do it again, sob..."
Gu Yihan listened to the neighbors' commotion in the yard, clicking her tongue and shaking her head. She really didn't know if Lin Fang was smart or stupid.
To be honest, she was foolish enough to keep the deputy factory director's son hanging on, hoping he would pay for his school fees.
To call her clever would be an understatement; knowing full well that she had the least say in the family, she still dared to demand fairness. She scoffed, "Where in this world is there any fairness?"
At the Lin family home, Lin's father, tired from chasing and hitting Lin Fang, looked at her and said, "Sent-down youth going to the countryside is a policy. Your father has no ability to go against the country."
“Of our three children, only you meet the requirements. Are you going to send your younger brother, who is not yet 10 years old, to the countryside instead?”
Lin Fang's voice was hoarse from shouting, her eyes were red and swollen from crying, and she said in a hoarse voice, "We're both daughters, so why doesn't my older sister have to go to the countryside?"
Looking at her clueless daughter, Lin's mother said, "She goes to work and can give the family 30 yuan a month. What can you give the family?"
"Besides spending money, complaining, and feeling that we're biased, what can you give the family? Even if she doesn't give the family money, can she still make me happy? Can you?"
Lin Fang looked at her mother and said unconvinced, "She's a womanizer; who knows how many men she's dated."
Lin's mother was about to argue with Lin Fang when Lin's father interrupted her, saying, "If you want to complain, you can only blame yourself. Who told you not to be born first?"
After saying that, he pulled Lin's mother back into the house.
Lin Xiaofen looked at Lin Fang and sneered, "Do you think I'm happy to marry into a wealthy family? Dad comes from the countryside, and after he started working, he still had to support his grandparents and their whole family back home."
“With my income, the family can have more savings. You were unwilling to work before, and now you can’t find a job even if you want to.”
Lin Xiaofang walked straight past Lin Fang and returned to her own bedroom.
After listening to the entire performance in the courtyard, Gu Yihan yawned and got up, thinking that she was getting sleepy from listening so much, so she decided to go take a nap.
The next morning, Gu Yihan and Mao Mao went to work together. Just as they locked the door, they saw Lin Fang sneaking out of the house.
Gu Yihan thought for a moment, "It's a weekday today, that's for sure! Why isn't Lin Fang at school?"
She looked Lin Fang up and down with suspicion, her eyes sweeping over the household registration book sticking out of her pocket, and her expression became knowing.
When Lin Fang saw Gu Yihan looking at her, she felt guilty and didn't dare to meet her gaze. She covered her pockets with her hands and ran away as fast as she could.
When Gu Yihan and Mao Mao arrived at the machinery factory, they could clearly sense that many of the young people there were looking at them with ill intent.
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